T FAPESP/BAYLAT PUBLIC CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS TO ENTER A PAPER Workshops for early career researchers from the State of São Paulo and the Free State of Bavaria: “Bavaria and São Paulo: the making of knowledge, science, arts - an entanglement perspective” From 8th-11th October 2018 at São Paulo, Brazil From 7th-10th October 2019 at Eichstätt, Bavaria (Germany) OBJECT OF CALL The Bayerisches Hochschulzentrum für Lateinamerika (BAYLAT) and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) provide financial support to bring together from the Free State of Bavaria and the State of São Paulo a group of early-career researchers and PhD students to take part in two workshops, with a focus on building links, envisioning future collaborations as well as enhancing the researchers’ career opportunities. The first workshop will take place at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in the month of October, 2018, and the second in October of the following year, at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstatt (KU). The goal of the workshops is taking a deeper look into the individuals, groups and their work, which gave birth to the social, scientific and cultural approximations and resemblances common to the Free State of Bavaria and the State of São Paulo. The starting point is represented by scientific expeditions in the first half of the 19th century, such as those carried out by a group comprising Johann Moritz Rugendas, Friedrich Sellow, Johann Baptist von Spix, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Johann Emanuel Pohl, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, Thomas Ender as well as others, which unveil the political, diplomatic, administrative, economic, social, cultural, and scientific networks established. These and later expeditions, such as the one led by the Princess Therese, of Bavaria, in 1888, will be examined in search of new perspectives. The workshops intend on demonstrating how science and arts gained momentum, and how this was appropriated in Bavaria/Germany and São Paulo / Brazil. Said workshops may bring forth a closer analysis of the different disciplines employed in order to achieve a new approach to extra- European/tropical spaces provided by the research done in the expeditions, which includes the disciplines of zoology, botany, anthropology, ethnology, history, economy, geography, cartography, and linguistics. The workshops will also focus on the methods applied to present the findings (visual registering, collecting, cataloguing, conservation) and the circulation techniques of the scientific/artistic results, be it by expositions or by publications. In that respect, the process of reception, fostering, and appropriation of collective memories constitutes a further, important research topic. The workshops will also discuss the impact of these connections and representations on the debates about migration and migration politics in São Paulo / Brazil and Bavaria / Germany. Besides the above mentioned, the workshops also aim to discuss the impact of the early arrival of commercial representatives from German companies, including telephone, electricity, optical instruments, machines, chemistry, medical products, printing, etc. Furthermore, individuals from Brazil appear in the roster of research objects, many of which sought specialized knowledge in their travels to Germany. They include prominent persons like José Bonifácio de Andrada, Guilherme Schuch Capanema, Adolfo Lutz and Henrique da Rocha Lima. Moreover, gazing in the opposite direction, after 1934, one finds several German scientists, such as Emil Willems, Herbert Baldus, Heinrich Rheinboldt, and Felix Rawitscher, who came to teach in São Paulo, at the recently inaugurated, first Brazilian university, witnessing the continued intercultural links. Interested researchers are invited to present papers that approach in an innovative way one or more dimensions of the outlined themes, i.e. the making of the scientific and cultural entanglement of two regions. The two workshops will become a space for the encounter of different academic traditions. By revisiting the past and strengthening the present scientific ties in the field of humanities and social sciences between the Free State of Bavaria and the State of São Paulo, the workshops seek to establish research exchange programs on different academic levels in a sustainable form. Proposals dealing with contemporary science, technology and knowledge, representations and memories, visual culture, body history, material culture etc. are all welcome. Researchers from the fields of history, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, arts, ethnology, biology, linguistics, geography, architecture, economy, etc. are invited to participate. The following subjects are the main topics which may be addressed, in a time range extending from the 19th to the 20th century: - Analysis of political, social, economic contexts in Bavaria / Germany / Europe and São Paulo / Brazil / Americas - Cultural, scientific, and artistic interchanges; epistemological changes - Representations and images - The role of Bavaria and São Paulo in the scientific landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries - Presence of Bavarian / German technology in São Paulo / Brazil - Travel and Migration: everyday life and material culture; visual culture; social interactions - Transfer of objects, (indigenous) artifacts and collections; culture and knowledge transfer - Reception, apprehension, and the construction of networks in Bavaria / Germany, in Brazil / São Paulo, as well as between both regions/countries RECRUITMENT RULES All participants must come from higher education or research institutions, either of Free State of Bavaria or the State of São Paulo. Participants linked to institutions outside of the Free State of Bavaria and the State of São Paulo are not eligible. Early career researchers recruited to participate in the workshop must have a PhD obtained less than 10 years before the start of the workshop. PhD students must have their thesis defense scheduled up to 12 months after the start of the first workshop. Participants will need to demonstrate a sufficient standard of English language skills in order to participate in the workshops. While recognizing that some research fields are dominated by one particular gender, workshop coordinators are encouraged to work towards an equal gender balance to the extent of their capabilities, promoting diversity and ensuring that no applicants are excluded from participation on the basis of ethnicity, gender, religious belief, sexual orientation, or disability. PAPER SUBMISSION Please sent an abstract of your paper and CV until June,15, 2018 to Prof. Dr. Gildo Magalhães Santos – [email protected] (participants of São Paulo) Prof. Dr. Thomas Fischer - [email protected] (participants of Bavaria) Criteria of selection: see agreement FAPESP / BAYLAT http://www.fapesp.br/10847.phtml.